We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"The solution is stable."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"On a scale from one to ten, one being the worst and ten being the best I'd give Juniper SRX an overall rating of eight because of its' competitive price."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"The most powerful feature in Juniper SRX is definitely NCLS."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"We think they have a good interface, the operating system is good, it's robust. It has plenty of great features, and the relation between the cost and benefits works for our business."
"The solution simplifies my business. Normally, for administration, we are using NetApp System Manager on Window since it's easy to create new policies. In a short amount of time, you can create new policies based on new requirements. For example, in the last few months, many requirements changed due to the coronavirus, adding the use of new services, like Office 365, and eLearning tools, like Zoom."
"It also provides us with layered security. It has onboard virus scanning features that allow it to scan before something gets to the host. It will also stop a person from going to a site that is known to be bad."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use of the interface."
"WatchGuard Firebox is easy to configure and has a nice user interface."
"One of the most valuable features is the Geolocation. Because we aren't a multinational corporation, it allows me to look at things which might be suspicious to make sure that they are legitimate transactions rather than people sniffing around the network."
"It saves us time in the respect that we now have the template built for it so we can get in and get it done. We've had much less problem supporting Voice over IP technologies from different companies. Because our client base has grown over the years, we're probably saving 20 to 30 man-hours a month now that we've got this on a good stable level."
"The main features of the solution are the control of the site-to-site network access and the overall features."
"The GUI is easy and intuitive."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"Lacks training for new features."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"In terms of other features, I'd like to see a web filter, 10 point control, application control and a DNA filter in the next release."
"Juniper SRX Series Firewall has to improve its web content site, like web filtration."
"In comparison to other enterprise-level firewalls, such as Cisco FTD, Cisco has improved significantly. In the past, I believed that Juniper SRX was superior, but after seeing the advancements in the FTD platform, Cisco has better functionality. I have not recently explored Juniper SRX's next-generation firewall capabilities as we only use basic firewall filtering in our enterprise network."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"I've noticed that the management interface could use some updates and upgrades."
"The big thing is performance. With all the features turned on it slows down."
"The GUI needs to be easier to handle."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"I'm not really impressed with the reporting side of it. It may be something I just haven't figured out very well, but it's hard to filter down on reporting of the actual valuable information that you would want. There is a lot of information out there so you have to have some kind of tool capture it and then filter through. So far, I haven't found the reporting side of the WatchGuard to be that user-friendly."
"The few issues that we have had, such as not knowing where to go, they have been answered quickly."
"It's sometimes not easy to understand and can require specialist assistance."
"There could also be better reporting. For example, there should be more out-of-the-box management reports."
"The scalability of the solution needs improvement."
"There's always room for improvement, especially if the threats are getting more sophisticated and the IT department cannot sufficiently meet this kind of sophistication with their own knowledge and experience. Knowing that this solution can get up to the level of addressing a lot of these threats is something that everybody wishes for. If we look at the dark web and the lawful web, they are two opposites, and if these two good and bad collide in the world of the internet, you want the best possible product—especially if you cannot get to that point of knowledge. I am just an individual and end user, with limited knowledge of usage. That's why I say there's always room for improvement, from their side and also from mine, because by knowing exactly what they can achieve and the knowledge that they can get on an everyday basis, and the portion that is understandable to me, it's an improvement for them as well."
"There are a couple of things I wished that it would do, but I can't think of those off the top of my head."
"The solution needs to improve its accessibility."
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while WatchGuard Firebox is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Juniper SRX Series Firewall vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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